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Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines

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AA Sanskrit text citations from Maitreya-Asaṅga’s Abhisamayālaṃkāra, otherwise referred to as Ornament

AKBh Vasubandhu’s Abhidharma­kośa­bhāṣya (Toh 4090)

Apte Apte’s Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary (see bibliography)

Aṣṭa Aṣṭa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā

BHSD Edgerton’s Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

DOP Cone’s A Dictionary of Pāli.

Hari/Haribhadra Haribhadra, and citations from his Abhisamayālaṃkārāloka

Kāś. Kāśika’s commentary on Pāṇini’s Grammar.

MSABh Vasubandhu’s Mahā­yāna­sūtrālaṃkāra­bhāṣya (Toh 4026)

MW Monier-Williams’ A Sanskrit-English Dictionary

PTSD Rhys Davids and Stede’s The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary

Ratnākara/RK Ratnākaraśānti, and (RK) citations from his Sāratamā

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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

First published 2026

Current version v 1.1.2

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འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ།

’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa

The Noble Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines

Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā

· Toh 12 ·

Degé Kangyur, vol. 33 (brgyad stong, ka), folios 1.b–286.a
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